THE RELATION OF LICENSING TEST SCORES TO SUBSQUENT DRIVER PERFORMANCE

A 2 X 3 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE WAS USED TO STUDY THE RELATIONS BETWEEN TEST SCORES RECEIVED BY DRIVERS AT THE TIME OF LICENSING AND FUTURE DRIVING PERFORMANCE. THREE GROUPS OF DRIVERS WERE DEFINED: THOSE WITH NO ACCIDENTS OR VIOLATIONS, THOSE WITH MINOR VIOLATIONS BUT NO ACCIDENTS, AND THOSE WITH ACCIDENTS AND VIOLATIONS. THE SEX OF THE DRIVER DEFINED THE SECOND DIMENSION OF THE MANOVA. NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND ON THE MULTIVARIATE TESTS. HOWEVER, UNIVARIATE TESTS ON THE TOTAL ROAD TEST SCORE DID YIELD SIGNIFICANT RESULTS, AND THE MULTIVARIATE TESTS FOR DRIVER PERFORMANCE DID YIELD A PROBABLILTY OF .062. HENCE, SIX CONTRASTS WERE DEFINED AND SETS OF VARIATES THAT CONTRIBUTED MOST HEAVILY TO THE DIFFERENCES DEFINED BY THESE CONTRASTS WERE FOUND. THE CONCLUSION OF THE STUDY IS THAT A LINEAR COMPOSITE OF THE ITEMS ON THE ROAD TEST CAN BE USED TO DIFFERENTIATE AMONG VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF DRIVERS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 67, 34 pP
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory
  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27599
• Authors:
  • Mcrae, D J
• Publication Date: 1968-8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis of variance; Crash rates; Driver performance; Drivers; Driving tests; Gender; Personnel performance; Road tests
• Uncontrolled Terms: Violations
• Old TRIS Terms: Test results
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222981
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 1994 12:00AM